In Search of Queer Theology Lost

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexual Regulation ◽  
Queer Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lived Time

In History of Sexuality 1, Foucault tried to represent—as allusion, satire, dream—the difficulty of finding new speech for telling the lives of sexed bodies. On his account, triumphal claims to have liberated both sex and the speech about it do no more than restage existing regimes for sexual regulation. They dress up biopower in bolder colors. Foucault’s effort at analysis should be recalled by anyone trying to write queer theology—much more, to write about it in the past tense. Whatever queer theology has managed to do, it has not yet been able to sustain new forms for speech about bodily pleasures in lived time. One theological writer who exerted herself to write into this difficulty was Marcella Althaus-Reid. This chapter looks in her chief works for telling moments of compositional failure—which are, not coincidentally, the moments of greatest promise. These passages suggest how to write queer theology more intentionally, especially in the direction of the indefensible boundary between theology and what is now called “literature.”

scholarly journals Something a Bit Peculiar? Sex, the Germans and the History of Sexuality

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTORIA HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Human Life ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Historians of sexuality are uniquely placed to act theflâneur. Loitering in an archive's seedier or more obscure files, they tour the marginal landscapes of the past. They can vicariously experience deviant activity while maintaining historical detachment, writing histories which titillate as much as educate. Fun though this may be, there is the danger that producing such texts benefits only the writers themselves. Michel Foucault famously suggested that writing about the history of sexuality occurs purely for the ‘speaker's benefit’. Historians have thus sought to prove that ‘marginal’ histories are of true academic, not just voyeuristic, significance. This quest has been particularly fruitful for histories of sexuality – stories which are fascinating not least because they are simultaneously marginal, or unspeakable, and utterly central to human life.

Archaic Contamination: Hegel and the History of Dead Matter

PMLA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-590
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fay
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
James Boswell ◽  
The Past ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Prometheus Unbound ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
New Time

I tell every body it [the Life] will be an Egyptian Pyramid in which there will be a compleat mummy of Johnson that Literary Monarch.—James Boswell (qtd. in Wendorf 105)Michel de Certeau thinks about reading as an archaic practice: “Readers are travelers; they move across lands belonging to someone else … despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves” (174). Embedded in Certeau's romanticization of reading is a history of how Egypt has been read: as wealth to be plundered, as endlessly available texts, as the ruin of time. Pose against this lostness Friedrich Nietzsche's contention that all philosophy is just Egyptianism, the nostalgia for and reification of a past tense without a dynamic sense of history, so many “conceptual mummies” (35). Nietzsche reminds us to consider not lost origins but the possibility of endings, not the loss of history but its death—not death in the sense of apocalypse as Percy Bysshe Shelley's “now” and the release of new time in Prometheus Unbound but death as the archaic, the ruin, the mute, as Egypt's lost “now” and the end stop of archaic time. I will pursue the problems of the archaic, poetic ground, and translative readings Romantically through Hegel's Egyptianized account of aesthetic practices, for Nietzsche's post-Romantic Egyptianism mummifies thought. Although Hegel's Egyptianizing also concerns the dead matter of the past, his account renders that matter as dynamic. His revivification of the archaic Romantically accounts for its contaminative potential as a mysterious text whose translation can unearth a curse, and/or a promise, for the new.

scholarly journals Keening the Dead: Ancient History or a Ritual for Today?

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Mc Laughlin
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Society Today

In his 1909 work ‘Rites De Passage’, Arnold van Gennep acknowledges that a ritual often contains ‘rites within rites’. So, it was with the ancient ritual of the Irish wake, at the center of which was another ritual, that of the keen, the Irish funeral lament. The past tense is used tentatively here, as in this article the author explores the resilience of the ritual and how, rather than becoming extinct, the keen seems to spend periods of time underground before erupting again in a new form, attuning itself to a more contemporaneous social situation. Drawing on ethnographic and bibliographic research undertaken between 2010 and 2018, the author traces some of the history of the keen within the ritual of the Irish wake and funeral and gives instances of how it is being reconfigured in the 21st century. This continuation of the ritual, albeit in a new format, seems to speak to a deep emotional and spiritual need that may not be satisfied by more conventional religion in Ireland. Finally, the author considers the keen’s relevance and place in Irish society today.

scholarly journals PREHISTORIC CHARACTERS ART AND COLOR COMBINATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3SE) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Anjali Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Color Combination ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Time

The past tense can only be studied through the present. For the study of the past, one can draw conclusions about past events by taking the present objects or present-day memoirs as residuals of the past. The arguments on which conclusions are drawn are based on observation of current things, events and relationships. "1Since time immemorial, humans have been trying to discover the past. With the development of knowledge, humans started searching for evidence related to the knowledge of the past and facts were proved with the appropriate evidence. Historians also have to use various evidence for factual presentation of knowledge related to the past. Archaeological material has become the mainstay of scientific and factual study of the history of the past. The major source of archaeological material is human creativity and artistic expression. Whose utilitarian form comes to us in the form of man-made pottery. Pots are used by historians as part time and society as special. भूत काल का अध्ययन केवल वर्तमान के माध्यम से ही किया जा सकता है। बीते हुए समय के अध्ययन के लिये वर्तमान वस्तुओं अथवा वर्तमान में विद्यमान संस्मरणों को भूतकाल के अवषेषों के रुप में लेकर उनसे भूतकाल की धटनाओं के बारे में निष्कर्ष निकाला जा सकता है। वे तर्क जिनके आधार पर निष्कर्ष निकाले जाते वे वर्तमान वस्तुओं, घटनाओं तथा सम्बन्धों के अवलोकन पर आधारित होते हैं।’’1अनादि काल से मानव अतीत की खोज के लिए प्रयत्नषील रहा है।़ ज्ञान के विकास के साथ मानव ने अतीत के ज्ञान सम्बधीं साक्ष्य खोजने प्रारम्भ किये और उपयुक्त साक्ष्यों से तथ्य प्रमाणित किये जाने लगे। इतिहासकार को भी अतीत सम्बंधी ज्ञान की तथ्यात्मक प्रस्तुति के लिये विभिन्न साक्ष्यों का प्रयोग करना पड़ता है। पुरातात्विक सामग्री अतीत के इतिहास के वैज्ञानिक एवं तथ्यपूर्ण अध्ययन का प्रमुख आधार बन गई है। पुरातात्विक सामग्री का प्रमुख स्त्रोत मानव की सृजनात्मकता और कलात्मक अभिव्यक्ति है। जिसका उपयोगितावादी स्वरुप मानव द्वारा निर्मित मृद्भांड के रुप में हमारे सामने आता है। मृद्भांडों को, इतिहासकार काल विषेष तथा समाज विषेष के रुप में प्रयोग करते हैं।

On condition …: aspect and modality in the history of Greek

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Horrocks
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
The Past ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
History Of

It is a commonplace of textbook treatments of mood and modality to point out that many languages employ ‘past tense’ forms to express not only temporal but also modal remoteness (i.e. unreality or potentiality) from the ‘here-and-now’, e.g. Lyons (1977: 809–23), Palmer (1986: 208–15). The same observation, mutatis mutandis, may apply to certain modal forms, which, given an appropriate context, can also refer to the past. The verb forms in English conditional sentences such as that in (1):(1) If Mary went to the bar, she would drink too much.provide an excellent example of both types of ‘extended’ usage; cf. the two possible readings of (1) given in (2):(2)(a) If (ever) Mary went to the bar, she used to drink too much.(b) If Mary were (ever) to go to the bar, she would drink too much.

The Spanish School of the new law of nations

1992 ◽  
Vol 32 (290) ◽  
pp. 416-433
Author(s):  
Sergio Moratiel Villa
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
The Past ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pain And Suffering

Pain and suffering are as old as mankind, but so are compassion and clemency. In whatever mythology, the god of war is not always cruel, vengeful and ferocious. There have always been good Samaritans — even when the parable was first told it was spoken in the past tense. The history of humanitarianism runs parallel to that of mankind. Cruelty and kindness are opposites but inseparable.

Was/were variation across the generations: View from the city of York

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sali Tagliamonte
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Linguistic Feature ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Existential Constructions ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTIn this article, I describe a new research project on York English (YrkE), a variety in northeast England. In addition to providing the first systematic linguistic documentation of YrkE, I conduct a quantitative analysis of a linguistic feature which not only is well documented in the literature, but also recurs pervasively in varieties of English worldwide—was/were variation in the past tense paradigm. Two separate tendencies are observed, neither of which can be explained by any unidimensional notion of analogical leveling of the paradigm: (1) nonstandard was in existential constructions, and (2) nonstandard were in negative tags. Both trends can be tracked in apparent time in which the contrasting behavior of men and women reveals that women are leading both types of linguistic change. In other contexts, nonstandard was is a synchronic remnant which can be traced to earlier stages in the history of English.

Introduction

Queer Timing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Susan Potter
Keyword(s):  
Early Cinema ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Subjectivity ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
Queer Temporality

This chapter situates the book as a counter-history of the emergence of lesbian sexuality in early cinema. The study is described as a post-Foucauldian history of sexuality that aims to sustain the radical implications of Foucault’s foundational work in History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, Volume 1. The chapter articulates the book’s approach in terms of queer historiography. One of its key strategies is the endeavor to suspend present-day sexual knowledges in the encounter with early films and other extrafilmic archival materials. To presume, at least before critical work commences, the sexual opacity of early cinema is to start from the position that the past is different from the present, particularly in terms of sexual subjectivity, but not to accede to a homophobic denial of the historical existence of same-sex desire or queer ways of living and being. The chapter explores the consequences of this approach for critical modes of identification, and queer articulations of historical time, in the context of recent debates concerning queer temporality.

scholarly journals Envelhecer na invisibilidade: tempo e narrativa na Ponta Oeste da Ilha do Mel, Paraná, Brasil

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Harder ◽  
Ana Elisa De Castro Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Estuarine Lagoon ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Os sentidos do tempo na Ponta Oeste da Ilha do Mel despontam nas narrativas de pessoas cuja vida é conjugada no pretérito. Nesta antiga coletividade de pescadores artesanais, localizada no complexo estuarino lagunar de Iguape, Cananéia e Paranaguá, o futuro perdeu seu elo com as novas gerações. Encravada entre o mar e a unidade de conservação da natureza de proteção integral Estação Ecológica da Ilha do Mel, a história da Ponta Oeste, narrada por seus moradores, revela os impactos de três décadas de políticas conservacionistas e restrição territorial pelo Estado. O tempo se dilui e reconfigura no espaço da existência de sujeitos que se percebem simultaneamente na invisibilidade e em processo de envelhecimento. As rupturas e continuidades do pertencimento ao território tecem uma fina narrativa, em que a mobilização pela vida futura busca os fios de sua trama na memória e nas imagens do tempo passado. Palavras-chave: Ponta Oeste da Ilha do Mel. Paisagens Culturais. Memória. Narrativa. Conservação da naturezaAging in invisibility: time and narrative in the Ponta Oeste da Ilha do Mel, Paraná, Brazil.AbstractThe sense of time in the Ponta Oeste of Ilha do Mel emerges in the narratives of people whose lives are conjugated in the past tense. This ancient community of artisanal fishermen, located in the estuarine lagoon complex of Iguape, Cananéia and Paranaguá, the future has lost its link with the new generations. Nestled between the sea and the protected area of the strictly protected nature of Ilha do Mel Ecological Station, the history of Ponta Oeste, narrated by its inhabitants, reveals the impact of three decades of conservation policies and territorial restriction by the state. The time diluted in space and reconfigures the existence of subjects who perceive both invisibility and the aging process. The ruptures and continuities of belonging to the territory weave a thin narrative, in which the mobilization for the afterlife search the threads of his plot in memory and the images of the past time.Key words: Ponta Oeste of Ilha do Mel. Cultural Landscapes. Memory. Narrative. Nature Conservation.  

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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